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again, during night. 10. Fine. 11. Fine; hazy; large lunar halo 

 half-past 7 P.M. 12. Hazy; a colourless ring round the sun all day ; 8 

 P.M. ground thickly covered with hoar frost ; barometer commenced to 

 sink 11 P.M., the wind at the same time rose from S.E., and an hour or 

 two afterwards, increased to the most violent storm^ probably ever re- 

 collected, and, at the same time, considering the short time it lasted, was 

 productive of immense loss both of life and property. 13. Seven a.m. 

 stormy, snow occasionally during day, but calm ; sleet 10 p.m. 14. 16. 

 Frosty. 16. Barometer rose very rapidly during last night, followed by 

 a thaw. 17. 18. 19. Cloudy. 20. Cloudy ; thermometer at 6 p.m. 39°. 

 21. Fine; thermometer 6 p.m. 32', but by 10 o'clock p.m. had risen to 

 38'; night cloudy. 22. Cloudy. 23. Cloudy; stormy at 8 p.m. 24. 

 Windy ; rain 9 p.m. 25. Windy ; night stormy. 26. Ditto ; tempera- 

 ture; 11 P.M. 47°. 27. 28. Stormy. 29. The same; barometer again 

 began to sink at 9 p.m. ; wind much higher, with heavy and constant 

 rain. 30.31. Stormy; nights of both days especially so. 



In London the storm of the 13th January last was severely felt. About 

 three o'clock a.m. a sharp wind sprang up from south, southwest, and 

 shortly before four o'clock a heavy rain began, which continued until 

 daybreak. About nine o'clock there was a heavy fall of hail ; and as 

 the forenoon advanced, the wind increased in violence, until between 

 twelve and one o'clock, it blew a perfect hurricane from the southwest, 

 which lasted for nearly an hour. 



Liverpool, Jan. 14. — During the whole of yesterday the falling of the 

 barometer gave unerring symptoms of the approach of a severe storm. 

 The gale increased as the night advanced, and from twelve until five this 

 morning, a hurricane raged, hardly less fierce, but fortunately less de- 

 structive as regards life and property, than the memorable one of the 7th 

 January 1839. At noon, on the 14th, barometer at 28.80, having fallen 

 from 28.85, at which point it stood at 9 a.m. 



The great and long-continued depression of the barometer, during this 

 month, came to a crisis on the 16th instant. In the morning, it again 

 began to sink after a sudden rise the night before, the wind having veered 

 to north. In the evening of the 16th instant, the barometer was again 

 below 29 inches, and towards midnight the wind went to S.W., when 

 the frost went entirely off, the temperature of the atmosphere becoming 

 extremely mild, without frost even by night ; but to make up for this, 

 constant gales and rain prevailed, until the morning of the 2d February, 

 when the frost returned, accompanied by snow from N.W\ The de- 

 pression of the barometer on the 13th was very extensive, the storm not 

 only extending throughout the kingdom, but also on the Continent, 

 •where it was, in many parts, more destructive than in Britain. 



